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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:57:52 GMT

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30 cases of Swine Flu vaccine narcolepsy identified by HSE Ireland

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:52:39 GMT

The Health Service Executive has said that it has identified 30 cases of the sleeping disorder narcolepsy as part of an investigation into a possible link between the condition and the swine flu vaccine, Pandemrix. A group set up to represent parents who believe their children developed the sleeping disorder after vaccination met officials from the HSE today. Before the meeting, Mairead Lawless of SOUND had said it was disappointed with how little progress has been made to deal with its concerns and the health and educational needs of those affected. At the meeting today, the group sought extra funding for support for those affected, up to and including third level education. The children or young adults range in age from five to 21 years old. Authorities in Finland have commenced a compensation process that includes an initial payment, ongoing assessment of needs and possibly the payment of a lifetime pension where the individual's ability to work and make a living is affected.
RTE News, Ireland

The Death Of Decency - Welfare Reform Bill

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:50:26 GMT

It's been a long, hard eighteen months. Harder and tougher than I could ever communicate to you. The most important issue of all is the message sent by a British government to the British people. That disabled children who aren't the most disabled of all will have their support cut to 'justify' increasing the support to the most severely disabled children by less than �2 a week. That newly disabled or seriously ill adults living alone will lose the money previously deemed vital to pay someone to provide care. That children with serious illnesses and disabilities will have their entitlement to National Insurance contributions removed. An entitlement previously supported by politicians of all parties as sending a crucial message of the inherent value of life. That people with serious illnesses such as Multiple Sclerosis, early onset Alzheimers or cancer will, after 12 months, no longer be entitled to the financial support they spent their working lives paying National Insurance for if their partner earns more than �7500 per year. I could tell you that actually, this is not about the money. That the financial cuts will be detrimental to lives, but that the message the government have sent to the British people, that the weakest, the frailest, the most vulnerable are no longer worthy of collective support will be rejected once that same public understand that message. I could tell you all of that, but over the next few years you will discover this for yourselves. So all I will tell you is this; Something fundamentally British died yesterday. If you thought it was already dead, think again.
Benefit Scrounging Scum

Murdoch's Times under computer hacking investigations - What about the police?

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:46:26 GMT

The Times newspaper is being investigated by police over computer hacking, a senior Labour MP has claimed. Tom Watson, who has campaigned to bring the hacking scandal to light, made a complaint to Scotland Yard over claims the Murdoch-owned broadsheet knew a reporter had hacked into an email account. Last month the Leveson inquiry into press ethics heard that a reporter had been issued with a formal written warning for professional misconduct for gaining unauthorised access to an email account. James Harding, the paper's editor, told the inquiry the reporter had been formally disciplined, and has since left the newspaper. In a letter to the Met last month Watson urged officers to examine whether a crime had been committed and whether the newspaper had misled the court. "It is clear that a crime has been committed - illicit hacking of personal emails. It is almost certain that a judge was misled," the MP said. One Click Note: Just as the Leveson Inquiry showboated so neatly over the surface of UK Prime Minister David Cameron's links to the Murdoch empire and the sway that this relationship held over the governing of Britain, so police bribery appears to be buried. This is the story that the establishment and the mainstream media are refusing to tell from Tom Watson MP on down. There are certain Bent Britain stink holes that appear too toxic to touch.
Dina Rickman, Huffington Post

Guardian has no credible explanation for not exposing criminal activities of Sunday Times

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:43:55 GMT

The Hackgate scandal has finally spread to The Sun and The Times and The Guardian �newspaper� seems delighted. But the self-satisfaction disappears when the matter of The Sunday Times is broached. Why did the lefties bible ignore the corruption? Did The Guardian raise more than a word on the corruption in Operation Motorman? It was about protecting a sister broadsheet newspaper, rampant nepotism, and the insular press at large. A conspiracy of silence. The entire NI camp was in the bribery and corruption business aka power politics and big business. The police of course are nothing more than their muscle to beat the sometimes rebellious plebs into submission. Judge Leveson has also ignored Nick Clegg and the self-proclaimed freedom fighter Tom Watson MP � in bed with The Guardian � does not dare to touch the matter. The stench of fear seeps through their firewall of silence with alarming ease. David Leigh asked me for evidence of corruption by the ST. I showed him some material pertaining to the illegal front companies but he refused to investigate any further. So much for the �campaigning� Guardian out to purify the press in the public interest.
Simon Tomlin, News Alliance UK

Supreme Court Appeal concludes in Assange case

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:33:00 GMT

The second day of Julian Assange's Appeal to the British Supreme Court has now concluded. The nub of this appeal has been the validity of the European Arrest Warrant, long regarded as 9/11 knee jerk reaction flawed law. On loan from the British to the Swedes, Claire Montgomery QC argued that the justices could set a legal precedent if the court ruled the arrest warrant for Assange invalid. Assange's lawyer Dinah Rose QC told the court that the arrest warrant issued against him in 2010 was in fact invalid under UK law on the grounds it was not issued by an impartial "judicial authority", but by a public prosecutor in Stockholm. Assange, arrested for sexual assault allegations, has always claimed innocence, has never been charged nor interviewed by the Swedish authorities in the UK despite repeated offerings. Published are both cases submitted to the Supreme Court. The appeal judgement is anticipated in approximately four weeks time.
Information Release, The One Click Group

Lobbyist Harvey Whittemore strikes back at former business partners

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:29:28 GMT

Nevada lobbyist, developer and lawyer Harvey Whittemore shot back Wednesday at his former business partners who sued him last week, filing a $180 million federal lawsuit claiming they were guilty of racketeering, extortion and fraud, and saying they threatened him and his family with death if he didn�t follow their orders. Tom Seeno and his brother Albert Seeno Jr. sued Whittemore in state court on Friday claiming he embezzled millions from their joint-venture, Wingfield Nevada Group Holding Co. � claims Whittemore denied. Weaving together descriptions of thugs, breaking legs and safes filled with jewelry, Whittemore�s suit claims the Seenos, including Albert Seeno Jr.�s son, Albert III, are associated with organized crime and known felons, and are under investigation by the FBI and the IRS. He claims they forced him to transfer all of his assets over to them � leaving him with losses in the hundreds of millions. One Click Note: What is going down with Harvey and Annette Whittemore plus Dr Judy Mikovits of XMRV virus fame previously working at the Whittemore Peterson Institute is a conundrum for ME/CFS patients. Whatever the rights or the wrongs of the various criminal cases, suits and counter-suits being bandied about in Nevada, very ill patients trusted the science and donated to the work of the Whittemore Peterson Institute. How terribly sad if it comes to pass that their trust has been misplaced. What is being done with the money?
RGJ.com

NHF Health Freedom Hero Award Recipient of 2011

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:24:47 GMT

The National Health Federation Board of Governors unanimously voted to bestow this honor upon State Representative of Maine, Andrea M. Boland, with the prestigious NHF Health Freedom Hero Award for 2011. The Federation, a 57-year-old, international health-freedom organization has been honoring special individuals yearly with this special award since 2000, and only to those who have excelled in their efforts for individual health-freedom rights. Representative Andrea Boland is in her third term in the Maine State Legislature, where she is considered a leader in health matters and in advocating for wellness and prevention. Her work there has specifically focused on such preventive health measures as advancing nutritional supplementation, transparency in vaccines, and publicizing cell-phone and wireless hazards. The Federation is so grateful to have Andrea as a truly activist member willing to continuously take a stand on important health-freedom issues for the welfare of us all.
News Release, National Health Federation

One Click Stats, January 2012

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:22:49 GMT

We provide our readers with the top fifteen documents and articles read/downloaded by thousands of people from all over the globe during January 2012. The News Archives are the most regularly accessed item on this site. This website not only contains the News Archives that carry the topical published items of the day, it also carries many, many documents. From academic papers, articles, case histories, legal issues, government documents, video links and more besides, we carry a great deal of information that grows every day. Romping up the ranks this month have been Dr Iain Stephenson found guilty of vaccine research fraud and although only very recently published, Scientific research emperor is marching around buck naked / BMJ. Research fraud is the rapidly rising hot topic of the month for our readers. Happy reading to all.
The One Click Group

Dr Paul Offit for Profit: Responses to UBC vaccine paper a problem for free scientific inquiry and expression

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:13:59 GMT

Christopher Shaw, who is on faculty at UBC with the Departments of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Experimental Medicine and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience, and his colleague Lucija Tomljenovic have recently published a carefully parsed and thoroughly peer reviewed paper on vaccine safety, without a doubt one of the most controversial topics in medicine today. Despite the cautious and professional tone of the paper, the paper, published in November 2011 in the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry which describes correlations and possible causal links between increased exposure to aluminum salts used as adjuvants in vaccines and increased levels of neurological trouble in exposed populations, seems to inflame angry and punitive responses in some quarters. For example, when I discussed the Tomljenovic/Shaw paper with Dr. Paul Offit, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, a strong proponent of vaccines and the developer of a successful new vaccine that has made him a multi-millionaire, he told me that the paper "should never have been published," despite the fact it was rigorously peer reviewed before publication. These calls to silence critical discussion of a still open scientific question are troubling. We would like to see rigorously peer reviewed research continue, and public discussion and debate promoted. No area of research should be out of bounds for free minds, and received wisdom, whether positive or negative, about vaccine safety should never substitute for real research.
Tom Sandborn, The Vancouver Courier

Reporting of research: Ghosts in the machine

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:06:41 GMT

If I tried to make money by deceiving people that a picture that I had painted was the work of some great artist, the law would call it fraud. Yet when pharmaceutical and medical device companies make money by deceiving doctors and patients that their articles were written by medical opinion leaders we call it ghost writing and gift authorship.[1] This double standard is because this form of financial "fraud" is so prevalent amongst the most influential opinion leaders in the profession and so many journals and organisations profit from it that we have institutionalised this dishonesty in which everyone profits except perhaps the patients who may get inappropriate treatment and potentially those who pay for it. Dr Tony Rickards was a great cardiologist. His memory has been sullied because he was unusually both a �ghost� and a gift author on publications about the MIST Trial. Dr Rickards [dead] was named as an author of a letter he had no part in writing, which responded to correspondence he had not read, about a paper he had not seen or written, which describing research in which he had not participated. If editors ignore their rules on authorship why should anyone else obey the rules?
Peter T Wilmshurst, Consultant Cardiologist, British Medical Journal

Julian Assange's extradition battle enters final round

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:59:37 GMT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen at the Norfolk mansion where he spent most of the past year. He moved out last month. On Wednesday, 421 days after he was arrested in London concerning sex assault allegations made by two Swedish women, the Australian will reach the final stage in his battle to avoid extradition to Stockholm to fight potential charges, when his case comes before the supreme court. And so his lengthy, surreal period of house arrest in a Norfolk mansion while fighting off, he recently revealed, the attention of the "hundreds" of besotted women who have turned up at his door, is coming to an end. In February last year, a court ruled that Assange should be sent to Sweden to answer the accusations; he appealed, and lost. But two high court judges granted him leave to appeal to the highest British court, not on the circumstances of his own case but on a point of law: namely, whether a prosecutor had sufficient authority to require someone's extradition, as in Assange's case. One Click Note: The Supreme Court Appeal Hearing in the Julian Assange extradition case starts on 1 and 2 February. You can watch it live (links published).
Esther Addley, The Guardian

Hundreds of Britons face census prosecution

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:50:51 GMT

UPDATE: Alex Deane has been in touch. He did not complete the Census but with his wife as a practising lawyer, she did on behalf of the household as she did not want to risk a criminal conviction for her husband's views. Alex is to be commended for highlighting the inequity of the UK Census. Hundreds of people are being prosecuted for refusing to complete the 2011 census because of its links to an arms manufacturer, campaign group Count Me Out has said. Up to 400 are being chased up for not taking part in the nationwide survey, which the group said was believed to be due to Lockheed Martin being used as a technical consultant by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It said 120 people have already been found guilty, a huge increase on the last census in 2001, when only 38 people were prosecuted. Count Me Out spokeswoman Kat Hobbs said: "Ten times more prosecutions than the last census shows that people are really angry about the involvement of an arms company." An ONS spokesman said: "The Government has acknowledged the census needs overhauling and yet �30 million was spent on harassing and intimidating people who may have not filled out a form. The state has no right to demand to know what your religious beliefs are or what kind of boiler your home has. It is simply wrong to tarnish these people as criminals." One Click Note: Media harpy Janet Street-Porter and ex-Big Brother Watch Alex Deane have both announced their refusal to complete the UK Census. Will they be prosecuted with all the antecedent publicity or is the Crown Prosecution Service exempting those that will attract media attention? Or indeed have they both bitten the Lockheed Martin bullet despite public proclamations? UPDATE: Alex Deane has been in touch. He did not complete the Census but with his wife as a practising lawyer, she did on behalf of the household as she did not want to risk a criminal conviction for her husband's views. Alex is to be commended for highlighting the inequity of the UK Census.
Press Association

Scientific research emperor is marching around buck naked / BMJ

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:00:35 GMT

The validity and quality of research underpin the entire research enterprise worldwide. However, a number of studies have shown that many researchers take "shortcuts" and that perhaps 1-3% of research is grossly false, fitting into the category of research misconduct. Research misconduct has been defined in US federal law as fabrication, plagiarism and/or falsification. Identified cases have been few, often limited to easy-to-identify falsified figures in published papers. However, these may be the tip of the iceberg. �Ginny Barbour, a senior editor with the PLoS group of journals, said one third of authors could not find the original data to back up figures in scientific papers when these were questioned.� OUCH! Have 1/3 of authors fabricated or falsified data? Certainly, the incentives to do so are great: career advancement in a highly competitive environment and obtaining grants that enable you to perform more research. While the disincentive -- being publicly identified and having one's career destroyed -- occurs so infrequently the risk is negligible.
Meryl Nass, MD

Woman loses life to clinical trial drug

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:59:29 GMT

WARDHANNAPET (WARANGAL): A 55-year-old tribal woman died after taking drugs for a clinical trial at Donga Chintha Thanda in Wardhannapet mandal in Warangal district on Friday. The incident set off alarm bells once again on the dangerous consequences of trials of this nature involving poor and innocent villagers. Tapawath Chilukamma was bedridden ever since clinical trials related to gynaecology were conducted on her by Axis Clinical Labs. Upon hearing the news of her death, villagers took out a protest rally while youth staged a rasta roko on Wardhannapet-Khammam main road shouting slogans against clinical trials. Sources said Chilukamma was among 10 others who were taken to Hydarabad for conducting the first phase of trials on June 27, 2010. After keeping them there for 10 days and taking blood samples and testing the medicine, the women were sent back. Three women from the group started vomiting and complaining of severe physical pain soon after. Chilukamma was wracked by severe joint pains, dizziness, nausea and chest pains. Their condition never got back to normal. It may be recalled that some 35 women and a few men in Piduguralla in Guntur district were also taken for clinical trials by Axis Lab last year, which earned all-round criticism. In 2009, teenage girls in tribal welfare hostels in Khammam district were given HPV vaccines (to prevent cervical cancer) like Gardasil and Cervarix. It was only after the death of five girls that the clinical trials stopped.
The Times Of India

Flu vaccine useless against Swine Flu

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:57:09 GMT

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, (UPI) -- The seasonal flu vaccine provides little protection against the novel (swine) H3N2 strain of flu, Canadian researchers say. The swine H3N2 virus, which includes the M gene of the 2009 H1N1 virus, has recently sickened 12 in five states -- Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Pennsylvania and West Virginia -- since August 2011. First author Dr. Danuta Skowronski, a physician and epidemiologist with the British Columbia Center for Disease Control, said the study showed young adults had antibodies against the viruses, but antibody levels waned in middle-aged people. The study, published in Eurosurveillance, indicated the seasonal flu vaccine yielded little protection against the swine strains of flu.
UPI.com

NVIC Defends Vaccine Exemptions

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:53:31 GMT

The Colorado Board of Health will hold their final hearing on February 15th on whether or not to adopt a new rule that would mandate healthcare workers get an annual flu vaccine. There is NO religious or personal exemption in the current version of the rule, despite the fact that these exemptions are available to schoolchildren. Time is running out and comments must be received by Feb. 1st, 2012. Thursday Virginia's House began legislative measures to repeal the state's HPV mandate. Currently residents of West Virginia can only obtain a medical exemption for vaccination. A new bill introduced would expand exemptions to religious and conscientious reasons. Parents in Kansas and Vermont are also fighting for vaccine exemption rights, along with those in Florida and Mississippi.
Information Release, National Vaccine Information Center

Reintroduction of rotavirus vaccine failed to reduce intussusception hospitalizations among US infants

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:51:45 GMT

The number of hospitalizations caused by intussusception did not significantly decrease after the rotavirus vaccine was reintroduced in the United States, according to study findings. The aim of the trial was to determine whether the reintroduction of the rotavirus vaccine in the United States was linked to any changes in hospital discharges for intussusception among children aged younger than 1 year. �The reintroduction of rotavirus vaccine since 2006 has not resulted in a detectable increase in the number of hospital discharges for intussusception among US infants,� the researchers concluded.
Zickafoose JS. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2012;doi:10.1001/archpediatrics.2011.1501

Surprise! James Murdoch Leaves GlaxoSmithKline

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:45:18 GMT

Months after we asked whether James Murdoch should remain on the GlaxoSmithKline board, the embattled scion of the Murdoch media empire has decided not to stand for re-election at the upcoming annual shareholder meeting to be held this May. His three-year stint as a non-executive director has been under a cloud ever since a scandal erupted over charges that various employees in the Murdoch media empire in the UK hacked into phones belonging to families of murder victims, terror victims, police and politicians. Ironically, one of the two committees that Murdoch will be departing is the corporate responsibility committee, which usually implies a board member knows something about being a good corporate citizen. His tenure may also have become a bit of an embarrassment for Glaxo, especially since he also sits on the remuneration committee, which means that he is one of a select few who gets to decide such matters as the compensation that is given to Glaxo ceo Andrew Witty. In late 2010, Glaxo paid a hefty $750 million fine to settle charges over production problems - contaminated meds, mislabelled packaging and incorrect dosages - at a facility in Puerto Rico and the feds say the investigation is ongoing. The drugmaker also agreed to pay $40.8 million to 37 US states and the District of Columbia as well.
Ed Silverman, Pharmalot

Police arrest Murdoch tabloid staff, raid offices

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:43:29 GMT

Police arrested four current and former staff of Rupert Murdoch's best-selling Sun tabloid plus a policeman on Saturday as part of an investigation into suspected payments by journalists to officers, police and the newspaper's publisher said. Police also searched the paper's London offices at publisher News International, News Corp's British arm, in a corruption probe linked to a continuing investigation into phone hacking at its now closed News of the World weekly tabloid. The phone hacking scandal drew attention to the level of political influence held by editors and executives at News International, and other newspapers in Britain. It embarrassed British politicians for their close ties with newspaper executives and also the police, who repeatedly failed to investigate allegations of illegal phone hacking.
Tim Castle & Georgina Prodhan, Reuters